This is an interesting theory and one that I have pondered for years. Who started singing and why? I especially enjoyed the video of the New Zealand soldiers and their war dance. Scary indeed!
I think singing is also a trick to get people to listen to you longer than if you were just talking.
If you have seen the Maori War Dance with the chest striking, arm movements and the facial expressions - you should also look at the African Bull Gorilla threats against intruders. Very similar indeed!
Interesting. Never considered that. I guess it is borderline to consider a wolf howling as singing, but canids and man do share many traits.
It’s the old “these dudes are crazy, let’s get outta here” trick.
One thing that comes to mind about the whole battle trance thing is the Scandinavian berserkers.
Another thing is that sung poetry is a very common way to remember and pass on knowledge in a illiterate society.
How is it possible to remember words to songs we haven’t heard in 40 years but we can’t remember someone’s phone number?
Wir setzen uns mit Tränen nieder
Und rufen dir im Grabe zu:
Ruhe sanfte, sanfte ruh!
Ruht, ihr ausgesognen Glieder!
Euer Grab und Leichenstein
Soll dem ängstlichen Gewissen
Ein bequemes Ruhekissen
Und der Seelen Ruhstatt sein.
Höchst vergnügt schlummern da die Augen ein.
We lay ourselves with weeping prostrate
And cry to thee within the tomb:
Rest thou gently, gently rest!
Res, O ye exhausted members!
This your tomb and this tombstone
Shall for ev'ry anguished conscience
Be a pillow of soft comfort
And the spirit's place of rest.
Most content, slumber ere the eyes in rest.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting!
Music: Created by God and for God.
Music devolution done through Satanic influence to use for drawing people away from God.
The author hasn't evolved much. Richard Weaver stated that art is to keep us from being assimilated with nature.
The biggest advantage of bipedalism is it enables us to carry a lethal weapon. That truth isn't compatible with modern libtardism.
There's always the mate-selection hypothesis, of course.
Another subject libtards are uncomfortable with is the child-selection hypothesis. Cosmetic features such as blond hair, blue eyes, lighter skin are not driven by men choosing mates, but by mothers choosing their favorite children. It's hard to imagine in modern times but for most of human evolution mothers had limited resources and had to carefully choose which children to invest those resources in, else her genes didn't get passed on. Young children are lighter skinned than adults, and European babies are more blond and blue eyed. That's the big clue it was mothers child selection preferences rather than mate selection.
Hm. Makes me think of drum lines.